Mathematics Teachers’ Use of
Questions: Is There a Change of
Practice after the Curriculum
Change?

Ali Delice; Emin Aydın; K. Seda Çevik

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2013.9410a

Mathematics Teachers’ Use of Questions: Is There a Change of Practice after the Curriculum Change?

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Ali Delice ¹ ^* , Emin Aydın ¹, K. Seda Çevik ¹

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¹ Marmara Üniversitesi, TURKEY^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the questions that are used by teachers. In broader sense the intention is to focus on questions as part of teachers’ formal as well as informal assessments. We will mainly concentrate on how students are assessed and how the questions in the assessments are formed and marked. The research is mainly qualitative having both descriptive and exploratory purposes. Questionnaire and semi-structured interviews are used as the research instruments Convenience sampling was chosen as the most appropriate purposeful sampling strategy for this study. The qualitative data obtained from 86 teachers were categorised in terms of themes relevant to research questions and then these categorizations were coded. Data was collected in two phases. In the first phase a semi-structured interview was conducted to reveal the contexts in which teachers ask questions. Second phase started one month after the end of the first phase for which interviews and questionnaire were used together. Two dominant themes that emerged from this study are the effect of the institutional context teachers working within and the national examination system.

Keywords

mathematics assessment
mathematics questions
marking questions
curriculum
change

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Delice, A., Aydın, E., & Çevik, K. S. (2013). Mathematics Teachers’ Use of Questions: Is There a Change of Practice after the Curriculum Change?. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 9(4), 417-427. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.9410a

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Delice A, Aydın E, Çevik KS. Mathematics Teachers’ Use of Questions: Is There a Change of Practice after the Curriculum Change?. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2013;9(4):417-27. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.9410a

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Delice A, Aydın E, Çevik KS. Mathematics Teachers’ Use of Questions: Is There a Change of Practice after the Curriculum Change?. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2013;9(4), 417-427. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.9410a

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Delice, Ali, Emin Aydın, and K. Seda Çevik. "Mathematics Teachers’ Use of Questions: Is There a Change of Practice after the Curriculum Change?". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2013 9 no. 4 (2013): 417-427. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.9410a

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Delice, A., Aydın, E., and Çevik, K. S. (2013). Mathematics Teachers’ Use of Questions: Is There a Change of Practice after the Curriculum Change?. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 9(4), pp. 417-427. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.9410a

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Delice, Ali et al. "Mathematics Teachers’ Use of Questions: Is There a Change of Practice after the Curriculum Change?". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 9, no. 4, 2013, pp. 417-427. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.9410a